Teen Smoking

Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage - Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&dopt=Abstract

Youth and Tobacco Facts - Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=202

In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered - PBS show on smoking. Emphasis is on effects of smoking in the here and now, not just 40 years down the line.
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html

Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People - 5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1594.htm

Educational Support Materials on Cancer - Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format.
http://extension.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/

Addicting Kids to Nicotine - Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.
http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html

Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths - Study presents national estimates of the proportion of yotuhs in each of 7 stages of smoking, and evaluates the effects of pro-smoking and anti-smoking influences.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/331

Tobacco and Kids: The Facts - Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov96/handouts.htm

The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco and Tobacco-Caused Disease - Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides young people and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment.
http://www.smokinglungs.com/cyberlib.htm

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking - 36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html

MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth - Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html

Blowing Smoke - Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
http://www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu

Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson) - Anti-smoking group offers youth a tobacco prevention message for grades 6-12, educational videos, quit smoking tips, anti-tobacco motivational speakers, and related resources. Founded by Patrick Reynolds.
http://www.tobaccofree.org/

Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion - Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3332.htm

Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools - Information resource list.
http://www.schoolfile.com/hctrp2.htm

Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic - From Consumer Reports.
http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115

Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage - Tobacco products cause more lung cancer to smokers who start young, recent research finds; scientists think it may relate to the impact of smoking at an age when the lungs are still developing. <small>(April 7, 1999)</small>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/health/background_briefings/smoking/313203.stm

Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype - Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html

tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids - Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/

Monitoring the Future: Kids' favorite cigarettes - Just three cigarette brands account for nearly all teen smoking: Marlboro (Philip Morris), Newport (Lorillard), and Camel (RJ Reynolds). These are among the most heavily advertised and promoted cigarette brands, in particular Marlboro, and Marlboro alone accounts for nearly two thirds of teen smoking.
http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html

Teens Can Get Hooked on Cigarettes After 2 Weeks of Puffing - CNN report on a study that found that young people who experiment with cigarettes can become chemically dependent on tobacco faster than people think. <small>(September 11, 2000)</small>
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/09/11/kids.tobacco.addiction/

Health News: Teen Smokers - Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.
http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/teensmokers

Teens Against Smoking in Kansas - Kansas youth speaking out about big tobacco companies. Join with other teens in Kansas and help create one strong voice working to expose Big Tobacco's lies.
http://www.kstask.org

FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker - Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco/compliancechecker.html

StepUpNC.com - A place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. Teens can come here to learn more about the perils of smoking, to find out how to quit, to become an activist, or just to see what other teens around North Carolina are doing about tobacco prevention and control.
http://stepupnc.com

Young People and Smoking - Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention. [PDF]
http://newash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_108.pdf

Slugfest in the Smoke Ring - Washington Post article describes the approaches of the four major tobacco companies -- Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, and Lorillard -- to get younger smokers, and explains why this is so important to the industry. <small>(March 1, 1998)</small>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/slugfest.htm

ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide - Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses. <small>(February, 2002)</small>
http://www.advancefornurses.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=3922

Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores - Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_10287.htm

Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes - Time magazine article on bidis. <small>(December 16, 2002)</small>
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.html

Parenting of Adolescents - What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
http://parentingteens.about.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm

Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet - Facts on tobacco use among children, nicotine and nicotine addiction in children, tobacco-caused disease, questions to ask candidates for public office, children and tobacco advertising.
http://www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm